7 PAGE Ald, THE HERALD, Wednesday, May 18, 1977 Royal Canadian Legion Terrace (Pacific) Branch No. 13 By ‘MaryAnn Burdett Sunday afternoon saw Terrace Branch 13 Associates host the Kitimat Branch at a challenge fastball game. Terrace came from behind with an _ impressive 22 to8 victory. High on the list of heroes were Comrades Stan McKay and Keith Trask who each belted out a homer with a runner on base. For the ladies, Florence Horvath did the honours with four runs batted in. Thanks are extended to the umpires although one has to wonder at their allowing such unorthodox equipment as GRAPEFRUIT and GOLF BALLS. Everyone involved reports a most enjoyable day with a-return challenge coming up in Kitimat before long. - Comrade Jack Peterson, who was instrumental in setting up the match and coached the Terrace team, wishes to extend his appreciation to all those involved and especially to Brian Kirkaldy, who hosted the after game social, and Bud Kirkaldy, without whose hel whole event would Such events do much to Comrade Peterson feels the ve been much less successful. foster relationships bet- ween branches and it is hoped there will be a real good turnout for the second game when it is played in Kitimat. ; Further in sports is the golf tournament at the Thornhill Golf Club this coming Sunday. May 18 is deadline for entries. This has always been a most enjoyable event so plan to attend. Sunday, May 28 is the annual Spring Smorgasbord in the branch, sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary. This is a meal tno one likes to miss as the ladies always do a fabulous job. Serving is to begin at 4 p.m. and it is advisable to come early. Donations of food will be gratefully accepted from all members, Ladies Auxiliary Members: don't forget that. June 7 is the final meeting before summer stan- down. There will be a social following the meeting so do make a special effort to be out on that oc- SASQUATCH casion. Doubters all VICTORIA (CP) — A weekend Sasquatch sighting near Mission isn’t being taken seriously by officials of the British Columbia fish and wildlife branch. “The possibilities of it exting are very very remote, if not zero,” Don Robinson, acting director of the branch, said today. Although admitting strange things do occur at times, he said there ip only about a “one in a miilion chance” that whal bus driver Pat Lindquist and four passengers saw on Highway 7 was a genuine Sasquatch. . Jack Lay, whom Robinson described as the best animal patrol officer in B.C., was even more skeptical. “It’s just a hoax as far as [’m concerned,” he said in. an interview from Ab- botsford. “It’s man-made.” Chopper Lay has been an animal patrol officer for the branch ‘or more than 22 years and his territory extends from Boston Bar, in the Fraser Canyon, to Powell River on the coast. - - Robinson said the branch has no plans to track down the beast to determine if it is real or a hoax. He said the branch does not normally track down animals unless they have been proven dangerous. . Lay, who has tracked in © the area of the sighting for the past 25 ‘years, said he. would need a lot more evidence before beginning a concentrated search. For example, he said, he would have to see where the Sasquatch had been feeding’ and bedding down before taking the hair ytmonster | seriously. to blame in Gotham tragedy NEW YORK (AP) — After inspectin the helicopter that killed five persons when it tipped over atop a Manhattan skyscraper, federal in-. vestigators recommended Tuesday that all helicopters of the same mode! be grounded temporarily. RANCH CLOSES The Salvation Army youth ranch on the Kispiox River will be closed this summer despite its successful rehabilitation program, says Mrs. P.C. Humphrey, who operates it with her husband, “We are located in the middle of nowhere and it is impossible to get staff," she said, “Tt Is a half hour drive to Hazelton, playing fields, gymnasium, stores, and a movig."’ The ranch, purchased by the Army about five years ago was centre for coholies before it became a youth ranch with facilities for 16 boya aged 14 to 17, ‘We teach them to work and instill in them a respect for property and authority,"” Mrs. urmphrey sald, “Jt ia the only facility of its kind in B.C. and will not be easy to replace.” — She said the boys would stay on the ranch from elght weeks to a year. average stay was five months, “ra. Horopherey said there are oaly eight jwys Io residanee al present and thay will be gone by July 31. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in- spectors blamed the ac- cident on the failure of a landing gear attachment and told the Federal Avia- tion Administration that all Sikorsky S-61 helicopters should rounded until their gear attachments are certified to be sound. The NTSB said there are 80 «such helicopters operating throughout the world, and each has four such gear, attachment fit- tings. The five victims—four on the roof of the Pan Am building and one on the street 59 storeys below— were killed when the passenger helicopter tipped over while taking on passengers for a flight to ohn F, Kennedy I[n- ternational Airport. “We have noticed a failure on the right side,” Edward Dreifus, in- vestigator in charge for the NTSB, said Tuesday. “‘It’s a failure of the right landing gear attachment pe nt. We're not sure why it failed, or of the exact point of failure." Dreifus declined to cite the failure the sole cause of the accident to the New York Airways 30-passenger Sikoraky §-61, pendin further investigation bu said “no other failures have been detected as yet.” LINTON, England (CP) — Residents of this Cam- bridgeshire village have abandoned plans to hold an eggthrowing contest in case ney are accused of wasting We're on t OTTAWA (CP) — The na- tional - economy is recovering, but at a modest pace, the finance depart- ment says in its annual review. Not only is economic growth modest, it says, but t has been erratic because of companies building up inventories and then selling them off, and because of industrial disputes in Canada and the United States. But underneath this, there is a pattern of growth that was fairly steady throughout the last year, the department says. Consumer demand increased, pro- duction in the economy rose after declining in 1975 and employment increased. Loo ing ahead, finance epartment says there is still potential for above-average production growth because plant and equipment are under-utili- zed, in addition, companies still ale engaged in “‘labor hoarding,”’ the review says reducing hours of work an using other means to avoid laying off workers. This should permit them to in- crease production quickly. The review tabled in the Commons by . Finance Minister Donald Macdonald is basically a review of 1976. It was a year of continuing the worldwide recovery from the most serious problems faced in more than 30 years, the finance department says. The fact the recovery was modest “reflects caution on the part of governments in stimulating demand in view of the underlying rates of inflation and a failure of investment spending to come forward at its tradi- tional point in the ex- pansion.” Canada the faait real rogress in the agains [nflation, the review says, with consumer prices rising an average 7.5 per cent over 1975 levels. This was down from 10.8 per cent and 10.9 ‘ TIONALECONOMY e road to recovery per cent iti 1974 and 1975. However, since year-end, prices have again started to rise. : As for jobs, the finance department says » {otal employment grew by 2.2 per cent vn 1976 over The previous year. This Tepresented 209,000° new obs. ‘ But the labor force grew by 248,000 persons, and unemployment increased to an average of 736,000 for the ear. The annual average jobless rate was 7.1 per cent. Like the inflation rate, unemployment hag con- tinued to rise since the end of the year. In April, 8.3 per cent of the work force, more than 900,000 Canadians, was out of work. Industrial relations were volatile, the finance department notes, with a near-record total of man- days lost. Quebec accounted for more than one-half of the total time lost because of several major disputes in the public and. private sectors. . About 11 man-days ‘of work were lost because of industrial disputes, 930,000 of this total during organized labor's. day protest against selective wage and price controls last October, the review says. The anti-inflation board, which minitors pay raises, produced evidence to show here had been “a significant moderation of wage demands” in 1976. Average annual compound increase in new contract settlements fell to 4.4 per cent by the fourth quarter of 1976. from its previous record of 18.6 per cant in the second quarter of 1975, the review says. SHOREHAM, England’ (CP) — Stephen Smith, 27, a biochemical engineer from - this Sussex town, was fed uy sharing his name wit 800,000 other Smiths. So he has used his new wife's surname, Carley, and changed his to Carleysmith. 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